Africa's Children

LifeLines Project

phil.malcolm — Fri, 22 Oct 2010 07:53:03 +0000

As the world grapples with the issue of human trafficking, one African location has taken action. The LifeLines Project takes trafficked teenage girls from an area of the city referred to as Sodom & Gomorrah and rescues them from a life of sexual abuse and exploitation. The girls are taken to a refuge of hope and new beginnings called the LifeLines Center.

There, the girls are introduced to the good news of Christ’s love. They receive training in life skills – both spiritual and practical. Each girl leaves the program trained in one of several self-sustaining trades: hair dressing, dressmaking, cooking, etc. They are equipped with all the tools needed to get started in their new trade. Most of the girls then return to their home area and their family, as yet another success story of Lifelines. It is an aggressive program costing roughly $100 per month, per girl … indeed a worthy, lasting investment in the individual girl’s and Africa’s future.

Helping the Hungry Fund

phil.malcolm — Wed, 20 Oct 2010 02:06:58 +0000

For at-risk children in Africa it is most often the basics which count, not the frills. In repeated surveys, spot-checking across Africa, Africa’s Children has found that supplying one nutritional meal for an African child – basic and nourishing, costs an average of 50 cents. That would be a bowl of rice with a familiar African sauce of local vegetables, spices and a bit of meat. Children at risk who are separated from their parents, victims of war, or living on the streets, would find such a meal a treat and a blessing.

The math is easy. Every dollar we spend on every-day discretionary items is equivalent to two meals for a needy child across most of Africa. Why not bless an African child today with two meals for $1.00, twenty meals for $10.00, or fifty meals for $25.00. Sometimes, just the basics are very important!

Africa’s Children Educational Opportunity Fund

phil.malcolm — Mon, 20 Sep 2010 09:08:28 +0000

“Education.” “Schooling.” “Instruction.” “Training.” “More Schools.” Stated in many ways, the essence is always the same: “Help us give our children the education they so desperately need.” During our travels across Africa, this appeal has been voiced over and over again. We’ve heard it from pastors, church leadership, missionaries and children’s workers. A simple request to state, but an overwhelming need across most of Africa. United Nations statistics reveal that Africa has the lowest rates in the world of children completing their primary schooling.

Because of the great need, the school projects that Africa’s Children has been involved in have had an inordinate impact in their communities. We continue to receive testimonies of changed lives – both children and their parents – and even whole communities where the doors for evangelism have been opened wide because of a school. For as little as $40.00, you can send a child to school where they will have a chance to not only receive a much-needed education, but to also receive Jesus Christ as their Savior. Your help will empower us to continue building schools and funding educational opportunities in a variety of ways. Thank you!

Child Soldiers in Sudan

admin — Sat, 18 Sep 2010 16:50:46 +0000

Africa has more ongoing, civil conflict than any other region of the world. The disruption and devastation of war affects no one more than the children caught in the fighting. They face loss of homes, families, security, and even their lives. The sad truth is that the problems heaped on the children of war continue long after the fighting ends. The following story from the United Nations news source illustrates some of these issues which the child soldiers – forced to fight in Sudan’s civil war – are now facing.

http://www.irinnews.org/report.aspx?Reportid=90430

June 2010

admin — Thu, 10 Jun 2010 00:43:41 +0000

His name is Mahery …twelve years old. He had just travelled, by bicycle, 150 kilometers on horrific dirt roads through the wilds of northern Madagascar to pray to receive the Holy Spirit in special meetings for that purpose. A local pastor brought the boy up to us after the first evening service and explained his story. We immediately began praying with him…

PDF – Speaking For the Children – June 2010

May 2010

admin — Sat, 01 May 2010 21:52:11 +0000

Janet looked about 12 years old. She was actually 15. Janet had been lured from her small village by a child-trafficker who promised her a job. But when she arrived in the huge, capital city, Janet was abandoned. She lived on the street until she was finally found several weeks later by a worker from the Lifelines Rescue Project. Janet was a wreck; filthy from living on the streets, starving and practically incoherent from malnutritionSpeaking for the Children – May2010

One and a Half Cameras

admin — Thu, 22 Apr 2010 02:01:01 +0000

Imagine trying to fill eleven hours of television air time with original programming while grappling with a severe lack of equipment. No matter the level of one’s creativity, this presents a real challenge. The entire television station has one fully functioning camera. Another camera – well, half of a camera – is so old it cannot be taken out of the station or used in daylight because the electronic filters on the camera only function under artificial lights

. Daylight washes out all the colors.

So, only one camera can be sent out to film on-location and special events. On top of that, when the footage arrives back to the studio, the editing suite is a cobbled-together patchwork of ancient equipment that should not be working. The challenge is to make it work because that is the only option. When the editing is finally done, it is loaded onto the computer that will broadcast all the shows over the airwaves. Then it’s time to just sit back and pray – because if that computer goes down there is no back-up.

Sound like a nightmare situation? Well this scenario is not just a bad dream for the hard working volunteer team of men and women at Canal Viim Koeega, (Channel Word of Life), CVK, in Burkina Faso, West Africa. This is their daily reality. Frequently, members of the team must work through the night, during the 5 hours off-the-air time, in order to repair equipment. ??The team members at CVK volunteer their time and work so diligently because they believe in this ministry. Philippe Yameogo, the director of the station, shares frequent testimonies of non-Christian people who, after listening to these broadcasts call in to say thanks.

The CVK team has heard from many who share the same testimony. They have been so touched by the programming that they have come to believe in the God of the Christians. Opposition or outright persecution sometimes makes church attendance difficult. This makes the television broadcasts which they receive an even more vital element in maintaining their new faith.

Africa’s Children partners with these hard working volunteers in order to bring Christian children’s programming to the country. Pray that our partnership with them will be effective in strengthening this endeavor. Please consider helping with the purchase of necessary equipment to improve the stations work and expand their ministry so that the children of Burkina Faso might hear – see – the gospel.

April 2010

admin — Thu, 01 Apr 2010 21:55:23 +0000

“Education.” “Schooling.” “Instruction.” “Training.” “More Schools.” Stated in many ways, the essence is always the same: “Help us give our children the education they so desperately need.” In the past year, during our travels across Africa, this appeal has been voiced over and over again. We’ve heard it from pastors, church leadership, missionaries and children’s workers. A simple request to state, but an overwhelming need across most of Africa… (read more)

Speaking for the Children – April 2010